First Choice Naturals

About Us

Meet Jane Gray (Customer Service) and Phil Gray owners of Owlwatch Kennels -Winning the GDCA National - again! Lots of practical dog knowledge and experience over the past 40 years, makes Jane's contribution to the FCN staff a very important one, and we appreciate her efforts as do her clients. There are very few that can provide the kind of service that Jane provides FCN and we can't do it without her!

Linda Arndt, known world wide as "The Great Dane Lady" because of her educational website www.GreatDaneLady.com . It focuses on the care and feeding of all breeds and specializes in large/giant breed issues. She owns Blackwatch Great Dane Kennels, where she has bred/shown dogs with the Grays for over 36 years. Linda owns Blackwatch Nutritional Consulting LLC where she consults for holistic pet food and supplement companies, helping to design foods and supplements to provide wellness and longevity for our pets. We are honored to have her as our pet nutritional consultant. Here she is with Champion "Sugar" DeGiorgis assuring her that it's ok to have a couple of treats a day!

Take if from us, you can't run an ecommerce business with out a top knotch website company and that would be nHarmony Inc (www.nharmony.com). Thank you Darrell, Brent, Eric and Christina for being there for us, at the drop of a hat. We can't recommend a better company for new and established businesses. They are a dream to work with and prompt to assist, never complaining when we bug them for help. This is the nharmony crew hard at work while crusing on the lake this summer with us.

Joseph Hamady - CEO of First Choice Naturals, Inc. has come to us
with years of practical business experience in the human food industry,
owning a produce company, a USDA meat packing facility and restaurant. He is also a professional musician (drummer) and owns Owosso Audio. As Production Manager at Pieres Entertainment Center, in Ft Wayne, IN, he has run sound for over 600 National acts. Joe brings a stabilizing element, a wealth of information and practical experience to FCN and we appreciate his efforts tremendously!

Phil Gray and "Curly Sue" - Phil Gray is known around dog circles as "Mr. Personality", aka Mr. Mingler and we have never met a person that didn't like Phil Gray. He is the other half of Owlwatch Kennels where he spoils the puppies (as Jane says) in the process of getting them ready for their new homes. He is known as the singing/announcer at the GDCA National Specialy Show every year and helps out at FCN by delivering lunches and always a smile and good cheer when he comes to visit. We love Phil!

First Choice Naturals, Inc is now in it's 15th year, but only new to Tillotson ave. We started off in a small room of this building and in three years we have expanded to the whole top floor of this building, which allows our "in house" cat, Grady, a 3000 square foot of space to romp through all day long as he terrorizes clients and delivery men!

Mark Swinsick - Shipping and Receiving Department does a great job and he could not do it withouth his assistant: Grady the Cat. Joe especially likes Marks strict standards for organization and for getting packages out the same day orders come in. We appreciate Marks efforts very much.

As for Grady, this cat has more attitude than any animal we have ever seen. He is a guard cat for sure. Grady was rescued by the Grays at the Louisville dog show a couple of years ago, and he is now our mascot at First Choice Naturals,Inc. Why? because he has too much attitude to live with other animals- if ever there was a tiger in a cat's body, it's this cat. Grady's a flame point Angora and the older he gets the more orange he becomes adding to his "attitude" with his flaming personality!